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I find religion to be the highest form of hypocrisy. They all go around preaching love, peace, goodwill, tolerance etc. and then go to war to kill anyone who doesn't believe them or their version.
Why should Man, to the exclusion of all other forms of life, and in all the vastness of the universe, be the only ones to have a 'God'?
Religions are continually being proved wrong in their beliefs, and are continually scrambling to align their beliefs with fact; i.e. when it was proven that the Earth is not the centre of the universe, when it was proven that the Earth is not flat, when it was proven that the Sun does not revolve around the Earth, etc.
Religion is a crutch for the feeble-minded to explain everything they don't understand. It is too easy to give God credit for anything that is not fully understood, rather than just admit that it is not yet understood.
When the time arrives for me to turn up my toes, I will do it with the belief that there is no heaven or hell, no afterlife or re-incarnation, no God or Devil, or any of the other fairy tales used by religious leaders to try and control us. We don't have a soul or spirit or any of that nonsense, and when the lights go out that is it, the end, finished.
My wish is for my carcass to be disposed of in the most environmentally friendly way possible (maybe even something useful like being turned into fertiliser) as monuments and graveyards are an obscene waste of space and just another leftover from a superstitious past.
Life is not a rehearsal, and we only get one crack at it, make the most of it
so that when your time comes you can go knowing that you did your best and spent your life chasing science fact and not science fiction.
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